Le sain, le soin et les deux sens de la vie

Analyzed from the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic, the concepts of the healthy and of the care shed light on different facets of healthcare, at the individual and collective levels. The question we like to address is the following: What do these different dimensions reveal about the health crisis? Is it possible to treat it only as a ``health" crisis, pertaining to particular biopolitical concerns, or should it not also be treated as the bringing intro crisis of the vital relations that come into play in care and give it its properly ethical value. It is not, however, a question of opposing the health management of the crisis to the order of the relations of care that it has revealed. It is rather a question of showing the variation of the meanings of life suggested by the distinction between the healthy and the care and also the need to re-articulate biological and biographical life rather than forgetting the latter in an exclusive (health) attention to the former. It is thus basically a question of re-articulating the political and the ethical in this updating of the two meanings of life which constitute the two sides of the same human life, the two ways of expressing what is vital in human life : at the same time its persistence in the biological order and its biographical consistency (according to the inscription of this life in relations which develop from the private to the public, from the intimate to the social).